Yogi Government Will Make The Report Of 1980 Riots In Moradabad Public For The First Time
Moradabad Riot: For the first time, the Yogi government will make public the report of the 1980 riots in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. The truth is expected to come out after 43 years through the report. The Yogi government will put the report of the Justice Saxena commission on the floor of the assembly to investigate the riots. The Moradabad riots broke out on August 3, 1980, during Eid prayers. In which 83 people died, while 112 people were injured. The riots were investigated by the Saxena Commission. It is said that the investigation into the riots was so dangerous that in 43 years no government dared to make it public. Now in the cabinet meeting chaired by CM Yogi, it has been approved to be tabled in the House.
Moradabad riots happened in VP Singh’s government
According to sources, in the report of Justice Saxena Commission, the main role in Moradabad riots was considered to be of the state president of Muslim League, who is a resident of Moradabad. In this report it was also alleged that this riot was hatched to trap people of another community and for communal violence.
The then Chief Minister BP Singh had constituted the Justice Saxena Commission. The Saxena Commission submitted its report on 20 November 1983. No evidence of the role of BJP and RSS was found in this investigation. Vishwanath Pratap Singh was the Chief Minister of UP when these riots took place. BP Singh later also became the Prime Minister of the country.
Eyewitnesses told the story of the riots
The picture of that dreadful scene is still captured in the eyes of those who saw this riot. Faheem Hussain, 48, has not celebrated Eid since the age of five. The owner of a herbal medicine shop in Moradabad’s Galshaheed area had lost four members of his family. According to Hussain, on August 13, 1980, a gathering of worshipers at the city’s Idgah was allegedly fired upon by the police. In which many people had died. The police reportedly broke down the doors of his ancestral home, pulling out his grandfather, the father. The police made the uncle and one of his servants sit in the car. He tells that after this we never saw him.
While the local people say that he was shot by the police. Hussain’s mother Sajida Begum, 70, is still waiting for her husband. She says that even her dead body was not found by them. The police was repeatedly saying that he was in jail. Then PM Indira Gandhi came to our house and offered me financial help. I refused I said I want my husband.
The streets around the Eidgah in Moradabad are filled with stories of alleged police brutality in what many in the administration are calling the worst communal violence in UP . On 12 May, the Yogi Adityanath government announced that it would table the report of the one-man commission in the state assembly. Which was presented by Justice MP Saxena of the Allahabad High Court to the then VP Singh-led Congress government in 1983. The report was never made public. Several FIRs were registered in the matter.
According to government records, there was a clash between the people gathered at the Idgah and the police that day. In the communal violence that followed in the days that followed, 83 people were killed and 112 were injured.
There was no Hindu-Muslim riot, there was a massacre of Muslims: MJ Akbar
Former journalist and BJP MP MJ Akbar who was then editor of Weekly Sunday. He has mentioned this riot in his book. He has called it a massacre by the police. Akbar wrote that the Moradabad incident was not a Hindu-Muslim riot, but a systematic massacre of Muslims by a fanatically communal police force.
Eyewitnesses told The Indian Express that on the morning of 13 August 1980, more than 50,000 people had gathered at the Idgah to offer Eid prayers. The crowd was so great that it had gathered in the streets. When namaz was being done. At the same time, a pig came on the roads from Valmiki Basti, about 200 meters from Idgah. Which is considered impure in Islam. After this the uproar started. When people asked the police present on the spot how the pigs came while you were there. In response, the policemen allegedly scolded them, saying that it was not their job to protect them from the pigs. He says that people pelted stones at the police because of this. The stone hit the head of the SSP rank officer.
Eyewitnesses say that after this the police allegedly opened fire from the main gate of the Idgah. Don’t panic after this. Eyewitnesses say that it was a stampede, in which many people died. Mohammad Nabi, who lived in the locality adjacent to Idgah, was then 32 years old. They say that we all ran to save our lives. Some people were trying to run away by carrying their children on their shoulders. Many were crushed in this stampede. Some people got electrocuted.
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